CONTROLLING FORWARD CHAINING EXECUTION IN A RULES SYSTEM - Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, provides for forward chaining in a ruleset. In one approach to this technology, a first rule is examined, to identifying a data object associated with it. A second rule is identified, also associated with the data object. The relationship between the two rules is determined, where execution of the second rule will modify the data object, which, in turn, will alter the outcome of the first rule.

2011-03-17

20110066584

SIGNIFICANCE EVALUATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The program makes a computer function as a significance evaluation unit including a statistical equation storage unit which stores algorithms of a plurality of statistical methods, a significance probability calculation unit which calculates significance probability for each of the evaluation items with the algorithm read out from the statistical equation database based on an input signal indicating one statistical method selected, a significance determination unit which determines a magnitude relationship between the significance probability and a significance level which is previously set or input and gives significance information to each of the evaluation items, and an evaluation result output unit which makes a display device output a matrix table in which the same number of cells as that of the evaluation items are provided such that each cell is corresponded to each evaluation item and cells of n columns or n rows are arranged.

2011-03-17

20110066585

EXTRACTING INFORMATION FROM UNSTRUCTURED DATA AND MAPPING THE INFORMATION TO A STRUCTURED SCHEMA USING THE NA VE BAYESIAN PROBABILITY MODEL - An “unstructured event parser” analyzes an event that is in unstructured form and generates an event that is in structured form. A mapping phase determines, for a given event token, possible fields of the structured event schema to which the token could be mapped and the probabilities that the token should be mapped to those fields. Particular tokens are then mapped to particular fields of the structured event schema. By using the Naïve Bayesian probability model, a “probabilistic mapper” determines, for a particular token and a particular field, the probability that that token maps to that field. The probabilistic mapper can also be used in a “regular expression creator” that generates a regex that matches an unstructured event and a “parameter file creator” that helps a user create a parameter file for use with a parameterized normalized event generator to generate a normalized event based on an unstructured event.

EVIDENCE EVALUATION SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON QUESTION ANSWERING - An evidence evaluation method and system based on question answering converts a report of analyzed information and/or a model of information into a collection of questions, determines answers for the collection of questions. A fact in the report is marked as being supported if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions support the fact. A fact in the report of analyzed facts is marked as being refuted if one or more of the answers for the collection of questions refute the fact. The method and system also may collect the answers as evidence and add the evidence to the model of information to create an updated model of information. The steps may be repeated using the updated report and updated model.

2011-03-17

20110066588

CONSTRUCTION OF PHOTO TRIP PATTERNS BASED ON GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION - Techniques for reconstructing photo trip patterns from geo-tagged photos are described. Photo trip patterns are reconstructed by mining geo-tagged photos from the Web or a data storage and segmenting the photos based on at least the geographical identification information associated with the photos. Mining semantics of each photo trip pattern may also be performed using tags associated with the photos.

2011-03-17

20110066589

ANALYTICS INFORMATION DIRECTORIES WITHIN A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPOSING AND EXECUTING ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS IN BUSINESS LEVEL LANGUAGES - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for building and executing analytics solutions. Such a solution may provide a comprehensive analytics solution (e.g., a risk assessment, fraud detection solution, dynamic operational risk evaluations, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.). The analytics solution may perform an analytics task using operational data distributed across a variety of independently created and governed data repositories in different departments of an organization. A framework is disclosed which allows a user (e.g., a risk analyst) to compose analytical tools that can access data from a variety of sources (both internal and external to an enterprise) and perform a variety of analytic functions.

2011-03-17

20110066590

ANALYTICS INTEGRATION WORKBENCH WITHIN A COMPREHENSIVE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPOSING AND EXECUTING ANALYTICS APPLICATIONS IN BUSINESS LEVEL LANGUAGES - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for building and executing analytics solutions. Such a solution may provide a comprehensive analytics solution (e.g., a risk assessment, fraud detection solution, dynamic operational risk evaluations, regulatory compliance assessments, etc.). The analytics solution may perform an analytics task using operational data distributed across a variety of independently created and governed data repositories in different departments of an organization. A framework is disclosed which allows a user (e.g., a risk analyst) to compose analytical tools that can access data from a variety of sources (both internal and external to an enterprise) and perform a variety of analytic functions.

2011-03-17

20110066591

POLICY-BASED STORAGE STRUCTURE DISTRIBUTION - Policy-based storage and retrieval combined with a distribution algorithm results in automatic and even distribution of policy-based storage structures across a set of nodes and dynamic, automated homing or ownership of policy-based storage structures. Large numbers of policy-based storage structures may be distributed without manual administration, allowing for rapid creation and destruction of storage structures. The overall load may be distributed and balanced across the server pool. Multiple entries having the same key value in a database- or table-like structure allow for distribution of policy-based storage and retrieval by key value and for queue semantics to be utilized for microqueues in the large database- or table-like structure.

2011-03-17

20110066592

Real Time Data Replication - A combination of synchronous and asynchronous replication of data is used to replicate a local database to a replicated database. The typical tradeoff between synchronous and asynchronous replication is optimized by using hybrid replication, which is to use synchronous replication for inserting new data and asynchronous replication for updating existing data. The combined use of synchronous and asynchronous in this manner provides an efficient replicated database where the replicated database can tolerate some delay in data updates but requires no data loss of new data.

2011-03-17

20110066593

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING CHANGE OF DATA - Disclosed are systems and methods for synchronizing data present in a target data set with data present in a source data set. The data present in the target data set is partitioned to determine a partition definition of the target data set. A target message digest is calculated for the data present in each partition of the target data set. Based upon the partition definition of the target data set, the data present in the source data set is partitioned. A source message digest is calculated for the data present in each partition of the source data set. The source message digest of a partition is compared with the target message digest of a corresponding partition to capture a change in data present in the source data set. Based upon the captured data, the data in the target data set is synchronized with the data in the source data set.

2011-03-17

20110066594

METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FILE REPLICATION UTILIZING DIFFERENCES BETWEEN VERSIONS OF FILES - Methods and systems for efficient file replication are provided. In some embodiments, one or more coarse signatures for blocks in a base file are compared with those coarse signatures for blocks of a revised file, until a match is found. A fine signature is then generated for the matching block of the revised file and compared to a fine signature of the base file. Thus, fine signatures are not computed unless a coarse signature match has been found, thereby minimizing unneeded time-consuming fine signature calculations. Methods are also provided for determining whether to initiate a delta file generation algorithm, or whether to utilize a more efficient replication method, based upon system and/or file parameters. In accordance with additional embodiments, the lengths of valid data on physical blocks are obtained from physical block mappings for the files, and these lengths and mappings are utilized for delta file generation, to minimize unnecessary signature computations.

APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPLICATING DATA IN FILE SYSTEM - A data replication system comprises a NAS controller and a storage system. In a first embodiment, after a NAS system takes a snapshot of a volume, the NAS system changes the referral information within the volume. Also, as an additional way to ensure the consistency after taking a snapshot, the NAS System returns the changed referral information based on a referral management table when clients access a referral within the snapshot volume so that clients can access an appropriate volume. In a second embodiment, after a volume on a NAS system is replicated by remote copy to a remotely deployed NAS system, the remotely deployed NAS system returns the changed referral information based on a referral management table when clients access a referral within the replicated volume so that clients can access an appropriate volume.

2011-03-17

20110066597

Method and System for Performing Live Migration of Persistent Data of a Virtual Machine - Persistent data of virtual machines are migrated between and across data stores using a method that provides for a bounded disk size, low performance overhead, arbitrarily low downtimes, atomic switch-over, and ability to build optimizations based around block level heuristics. The method includes the steps of copying the persistent data at the source data store to the destination data store, updating a bitmap data structure during the copying step to indicate which blocks of the persistent data have been modified during the copying step, identifying the blocks that have been modified during the copying step using the bitmap data structure, and copying the identified blocks to the destination data store. The method may further include the step of determining that the number of the identified blocks is below a predetermined threshold and suspending the virtual machine prior to the second copying step.

2011-03-17

20110066598

SEQUENCE OF EVENTS RECORDER FACILITY FOR AN INDUSTRIAL PROCESS CONTROL ENVIRONMENT - A sequence of events (SOE) recorder facility in a process control network environment is described herein. The SOE recorder facility is hosted by a networked node that receives digital signal status change (event) data from a networked controller. The sequence of events recorder facility receives a configured set of digital data signals from the controller, temporarily buffers the events in chronological order according to timestamps assigned to the events by their sources (e.g., fieldbus modules). The data is thereafter copied/removed from the buffer and provided to multiple destinations including: a process database that maintains an archival copy of the received event data for rendering event reports, and an SOE client user interface for rendering event logs to printers and/or graphical user interface displays.

2011-03-17

20110066599

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING AN IMAGE LEVEL SNAPSHOT AND FOR RESTORING PARTIAL VOLUME DATA - The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the contents of the information store from a file allocation table, copying the contents of the information store to a storage device based on the snapshot, and associating the retrieved data with the copied contents to provide file system information for the copied contents.

2011-03-17

20110066600

FORWARD DECAY TEMPORAL DATA ANALYSIS - A disclosed method for implementing time decay in the analysis of streaming data objects is based on the age, referred to herein as the forward age, of a data object measured from a landmark time in the past to a time associated with the occurrence of the data object, e.g., an object's timestamp. A forward time decay function is parameterized on the forward age. Because a data object's forward age does not depend on the current time, a value of the forward time decay function is determined just once for each data object. A scaling factor or weight associated with a data object may be weighted according to its decay function value. Forward time decay functions are beneficial in determining decayed aggregates, including decayed counts, sums, and averages, decayed minimums and maximums, and for drawing decay-influenced samples.

2011-03-17

20110066601

INFORMATION LIFECYCLE CROSS-SYSTEM RECONCILIATION - In the described systems and methods for information lifecycle cross-system reconciliation, a number of reconciliation indicators for a certain type of data are defined. A first set of values of the reconciliation indicators are calculated at a first computer system based on data stored in a memory of the first computer system. A second set of values of the reconciliation indicators are calculated at a second computer system based on data transferred from the first computer system. The two sets of values are received at reconciliation cockpit and stored in a reconciliation data structure. Further, the reconciliation data structure is examined to identify inconsistency between the data stored in the memory of the first computer system and the data transferred to the second computer system. If such an inconsistency is identified, the data transfer is cancelled. If inconsistency is not identified, the data transfer is confirmed.

2011-03-17

20110066602

MAPPING DATASET ELEMENTS - Mapping one or more elements of an input dataset to one or more elements of an output dataset includes: receiving in an interface one or more mapped relationships between a given output and one or more inputs represented by input variables, at least one of the mapped relationships including a transformational expression executable on a data processing system, the transformational expression defining an output of a mapped relationship based on at least one input variable mapped to an element of an input dataset; receiving in the interface identification of elements of an output dataset mapped to outputs of respective mapped relationships; generating output data from the data processing system according to the transformational expression based on input data from the input dataset associated with the element of the input dataset mapped to the input variable; determining validation information in response to the generated output data based on validation criteria defining one or more characteristics of valid values associated with one or more of the identified elements of the output dataset; and presenting in the interface visual feedback based on the determined validation information.

2011-03-17

20110066603

Time-Outs With Time-Reversed Linear Probing - A current key is received at a current arrival time at a computer. An index in an array corresponding to the current key is determined using a hash function. A previous key and a previous arrival time are retrieved from the array at the index. The array is transformed by replacing the previous key and the previous arrival time with the current key and the current arrival time in the array at the index. The previous key and the previous arrival time are inserted into a nearest eligible sequential index in the array.

2011-03-17

20110066604

METHOD AND AN ARRANGEMENT FOR CONCURRENCY CONTROL OF TEMPORAL DATA - The method is for granting access to data of a first object that has at least one temporally access controlled public attribute and a clock capable of measuring time independently of the clocks of other objects. A request to access a value of the public attribute of the first object is received. The value of the clock of the first object is compared with the value of the clock of at least one second object. If necessary, the clock values of the first and the second objects are synchronized. Access to the value of the attribute of the first object is granted. Also an arrangement and a computer program product are disclosed.

2011-03-17

20110066605

PROCESSES AND SYSTEMS FOR COLLABORATIVE MANIPULATION OF DATA - Processes and systems are disclosed for accessing and providing information obtained from a source. The processes and systems allow for accessing data stored in an electronic storage medium and providing a first set of information derived from the data stored in the storage medium. The processes and systems also provide a second set of information comprising detail data underlying the summary data.

2011-03-17

20110066606

SEARCH ENGINE WITH PRIVACY PROTECTION - A search engine system with privacy protection, including a data indexer configured to create an index of data, a search engine configured to search the index of the data in response to a query, and create a search result set including excerpts from the data, and a privacy protector configured to identify at least one data entity within at least one excerpt of the search result set that meets at least one predefined entity extraction criterion, redact the search result set by removing the data entity from the excerpt, and present the redacted search result set on a computer output device.

2011-03-17

20110066607

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF INTERACTING WITH A SERVER, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AND PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS - Method of generating search results for a search engine which allows users to provide feedback to the search engine. Historical data for all searches performed are kept by the search engine which is used to modify the results generated by other conventional means. When the results are displayed to the user, the user is able to interact with the system and provide feedback which modifies the historical data. Such feedback can then be used in future searches to generate results which are better ranked and clustered according to relevance to the search request. Conveniently, the user is able to provide at least part of his feedback by clicking on “up” and “down” buttons, in addition to ranked search results, the system may display other records associated with the search enquiry, such as a chatroom on that topic.

2011-03-17

20110066608

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DELIVERING TARGETED CONTENT TO A USER - An architectural stack includes a rules proxy. The rules proxy may be between a web server and a HTTP proxy cache, and may be an HTTP proxy application. The rules proxy receives a user request to access a web page from the web server, captures user data (e.g., referrer data and/or session data) from the user request, applies a rule to the user data to assign the user to a user bucket, generates a web page with content using the assigned user bucket, and delivers the user-specific, generated web page to the user.

2011-03-17

20110066609

Crawling Browser-Accessible Applications - Crawling a browser-accessible application by causing a target application and a bridge application to run concurrently in a browser-controllable player, and iteratively receiving from the bridge application current state information of the target application, storing the state information on a data storage device if the state information is not found on the data storage device, where the state information is stored as a descendant state of an initial state of the target application, and interacting with the target application in accordance with a predefined simulation algorithm, thereby effecting a new state of the target application, until a predefined termination condition is reached.

2011-03-17

20110066610

SEARCH METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PREVIEW INFORMATION - A search method, an apparatus, and a system for providing preview information are provided. The search method includes receiving a list of search result items and preview information from a server in real time and outputting the list and the preview information. Therefore, a search time can be efficiently reduced, which enables a user to obtain a desired search result more rapidly.

2011-03-17

20110066611

GENERATING SEARCH RESULT SUMMARIES - Embodiments are configured to provide a summary of information associated with one or more search results. In an embodiment, a system includes a summary generator that can be configured to provide a summary of information including one or more snippets associated with a search term or search terms. The system includes a ranking component that can be used to rank snippets and the ranked snippets can be used when generating a summary that includes one or more ranked snippets. In one embodiment, the system can be configured to include one or more filters that can be used to filter snippets and the filtered snippets can be used when generating a summary. Other embodiments are available.

2011-03-17

20110066612

Method, System, and Apparatus for Delivering Query Results from an Electronic Document Collection - A method, system, and article are provided for efficiently and effectively searching an electronic document collection. Each of the documents in the collection is pre-divided into sub-sections. One or more profiles are created, each including a selection of at least one of the sections of the documents in the collection. In addition, a weight is assigned to each of the selected sections in the profile. Based upon the parameters of a query and selection of a profile, select sub-sections of each document are employed to compare query data to the underlying document collection. A compilation of documents is created with data matching the query data, and a relevancy score is computed for each document in the compilation. The relevancy score is then leveraged to sort the documents in a manner to convey relevancy to the query submission.

2011-03-17

20110066613

Syndicated Data Stream Content Provisioning - Apparatus for syndicated data stream content provisioning, the apparatus comprising: an interaction tracker, configured to track at least one interaction of a user with at least one content object of a respective one of a group consisting of at least one syndicated data stream received on a computer device, the interaction being implicitly indicative of a preference of the user, a ranking function calculator, in communication with the interaction tracker, configured to calculate a ranking function based on the tracked interaction, and a content ranker, in communication with the ranking function calculator, configured to rank a plurality of content objects of the syndicated data streams of the group, in an order based on the calculated ranking function.

2011-03-17

20110066614

Systems and Method for Dynamic Content Injection Using Aspect Oriented Media Programming - A system for injecting business content dynamically based on the context of the user. A media content analysis tool may be used to analyze existing media to identify features and insert tags based on the content and/or time. A media content orchestrator may be used to author scriplets containing product advice for the media stream to insert and associate scriplets to tags in the media stream. The media player, equipped with a codec for the new media format, performs functions such as browsing product information, places orders, or the like.

2011-03-17

20110066615

PERSONALIZATION ENGINE FOR BUILDING A USER PROFILE - Users of electronic documents are classified for profiling and targeting of additional relevant content. Behavioral data is gathered from user registration information and user activity, and user documents and actions are categorized. Registration information is combined with collaborative and editorial data to provide user profile information. Author-generated document classification information is analyzed and assigned a first taxonomic noun to characterize the document. User-generated tags characterizing a portion of the document are assigned a second taxonomic noun. Search terms that resulted in the user accessing the document are identified and assigned a third taxonomic noun. Attributes related to how the document was accessed are evaluated and assigned a fourth taxonomic noun. The document is processed using pattern rules to extract a fifth taxonomic noun. The taxonomic nouns are aggregated to determine a composite set of taxonomic nouns, and the user is categorized using the taxonomic nouns, and/or the author-generated classification.

2011-03-17

20110066616

Systems, Methods, and Software for Presenting Legal Case Histories - Systems and methods for automatically processing a textual document by identifying occurrences of a piece of text having a predetermined format in the textual document; determining a depth-of-treatment value for each piece of formatted text in the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value indicating a depth of treatment in the textual document afforded to the particular piece of formatted text; associating an abstract with each piece of formatted text in the textual document; and generating a data record containing each identified piece of formatted text from the textual document, the depth-of-treatment value and the abstract associated with each piece of formatted text in the textual document.

2011-03-17

20110066617

SPATIAL QUERYING IN A DATA WAREHOUSE - A data warehouse that operates to receive a spatial query and return a spatial result for the spatial query, the data warehouse comprises a regular database operating to receive and process a regular query and return a query result in response to the regular query. The data warehouse also comprises an interface layer implemented external to the regular database and operating to intercept the spatial query and translate the spatial query into the regular query for processing by the regular database. The regular database includes at least one spatial index that is accessed by the interface layer to translate the spatial query into the regular query for processing by the regular database.

AUTOMATICALLY FINDING CONTEXTUALLY RELATED ITEMS OF A TASK - Architecture for enabling a user to automatically recover documents and other information associated with work contexts and recover documents and other information artifacts associated with a specific project. The architecture enables monitoring and recording of activity information related to user interactions with information artifacts pertaining to a particular work context. The user can select a document having a portion of work content (e.g., a term or other type of reference item in a document) related to the work context. A lexical analysis is performed on the activity information and the reference item to identify lexical similarities. A list of candidate items (e.g., related documents) is inferred from the information artifacts based on the lexical similarities. The candidate items related to the work context are presented to the user, who can select specific items to reestablish the work context.

2011-03-17

20110066620

Automated Boolean Expression Generation for Computerized Search and Indexing - A computer implemented method of indexing a plurality of responses for later retrieval and presentation to a user in response to queries, includes, for each of the plurality of responses, receiving at least one representative query for that response. The representative query(s) represent text (e.g. natural language) query(s) to be input by an end user searching for information addressed by that response. Each representative query is parsed into terms. The terms are analyzed to determine which of these terms are more likely to uniquely identify queries for the particular response among terms in representative queries for all indexed responses. Boolean expression(s) satisfied by a text query containing one of the terms determined to more likely uniquely identify that response, and another one of the parsed terms are formed.

2011-03-17

20110066621

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING AND ANALYZING COMPLEX SCENARIOS - An embodiment of the present invention includes a method for analyzing and solving possibility tree. A possibility tree having a plurality of programmable nodes is constructed and solved with a solver module executed by a processor element. The solver module executes the programming of said nodes, and tracks the state of at least a variable through a branch. When a variable of said branch is out of tolerance with a parameter, the solver disables remaining nodes of the branch and marks the branch as an invalid solution. The valid solutions are then aggregated and displayed as valid tree solutions.

2011-03-17

20110066622

PRODUCT LINE EXTRACTION - Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms.

2011-03-17

20110066623

Methods and Systems for Compressing Indices - Systems and methods for compressing indices are described. In one aspect, a plurality of items are selected where each item has an entry in an inverted index and each item entry comprises a listing of articles that the item appears in. At least a first item entry and a second item entry are determined for compression and the second item entry is compressed into the first item entry resulting in a compressed first item entry.

2011-03-17

20110066624

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING RELATED WORDS AND WORD CONCEPTS - a method and system for generating related keywords based by creating relationship maps using meta keyword appearing on web pages. The present invention also relates to filtering techniques that may be deployed to reduce the skew that may be caused by inserting unrelated meta keywords under web pages.

2011-03-17

20110066625

INFORMATION PROVIDING APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEMORY MEDIUM - An information providing apparatus includes: a communication unit to receive transmitted information containing first location information associated with a first communication apparatus; a registering unit to extract, from the transmitted information, one or more keywords and the first location information, and to register the first location information and the one or more keywords in a keyword database; a request interface to receive a request for information from a second communication apparatus and a second location information associated with the second communication apparatus; an extractor to reference the keyword database and to extract one or more keywords based on the second location information; and a search requesting unit to output a search request containing the one or more keywords extracted by the extractor, wherein the search request is output to another computer that executes a search to provide information to the second communication apparatus.

2011-03-17

20110066626

Merging XML documents automatically using attributes based comparison - An aspect of the present invention provides a technique to automatically merge information contained in two or more XML documents in to a single merged XML document. The merging technique is based on a comparison logic that involves comparing XML elements of one of the XML document with elements of the other XML document and this element comparison is based on at least one XML attribute associated with the elements of the XML documents and termed as a merge attribute in the embodiments of the invention. An aspect of the present invention involves parsing the XML documents and providing a list of attributes asscociated with the elements of the XML documents and allowing a user to select one or more attributes as merge attributes. In yet another embodiment the XML:ID-type is selected as the default merge attribute.

2011-03-17

20110066627

DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE - A method of providing a user interface (UI) and a display apparatus having the same. In a method for providing a UI, a display apparatus receives an manipulation for two or more axis directions, and searches for one of a plurality of images by applying two or more different classification standards according to the directions of the received input manipulation. Therefore, the user may easily search for a desired image using one or more classification standards.

2011-03-17

20110066628

DICTIONARY FOR DATA DEDUPLICATION - Mechanisms are provided for efficiently improving a dictionary used for data deduplication. Dictionaries are used to hold hash key and location pairs for deduplicated data. Strong hash keys prevent collisions but weak hash keys are more computation and storage efficient. Mechanisms are provided to use both a weak hash key and a strong hash key. Weak hash keys and corresponding location pairs are stored in an improved dictionary while strong hash keys are maintained with the deduplicated data itself. The need for having uniqueness from a strong hash function is balanced with the deduplication dictionary space savings from a weak hash function.

2011-03-17

20110066629

TECHNIQUE FOR PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL INTERNET SEARCH CRITERIA - Disclosed is a system for, and method of, supplementing an interne search. The disclosed techniques may be used to receive an initial internet search criteria entered by a user at an interface (such as a web site) to the internet search engine, identify an entity representation in a database that corresponds to the internet search criteria, and produce an enhanced internet search criteria that may incorporate both the initial internet search criteria and field values from the identified entity representation. The enhanced internet search criteria may be passed to the internet search engine in a manner that is transparent to a user.

2011-03-17

20110066630

MULTIMEDIA OBJECT RETRIEVAL FROM NATURAL LANGUAGE QUERIES - A method for identifying multi-media assets from a multi-media collection, and the method implemented at least in part by a data processing system and comprising the steps of: receiving a search query, the search query, or a derivative thereof, including a possessive phrase, wherein the possessive phrase includes a possessor and a possession category; identifying a denoted object referred to by the possessive phrase using a predefined relationship database that establishes social relationships between objects; identifying one or more additional possessors of the denoted object using the predefined relationship database; generating one or more additional possessive phrases for the denoted objects relating the identified additional possessors to the denoted object; and identifying one or more multi-media assets from the multi-media collection containing the denoted object responsive to the one or more additional possessive phrases.

2011-03-17

20110066631

METHOD OF DETECTING CHARACTER STRING PATTERN AT HIGH SPEED USING LAYERED SHIFT TABLES - A character string pattern matching method for detecting the presence of at least one of N (N is a natural number equal to or greater than 2) patterns in specific text shifts a detection location across text by a maximum shift length using single-byte character-based layered SHIFT tables, thereby increasing a pattern matching speed as compared with the prior art pattern matching algorithms.

2011-03-17

20110066632

MOLECULAR LEVEL SIMILARITY SEARCH AND COMPUTER AIDED DRUG DISCOVERY PROCESS - Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for searching chemical compounds referenced in chemical literature. References to chemical compounds in the documents may be transformed to corresponding references using a standard notation for representing chemical compounds. Criteria specifying desired molecular characteristics may be received. A regular expression may be generated based on the received criteria. The chemical documents may be searched using the regular expression. Based on the search, a chemical document may be determined that references a chemical compound satisfying the received criteria. Further, the regular expression may be generated based on the received criteria and a received mutation rule. Based on the generated regular expression and the chemical documents, one or more chemical compounds may be discovered that satisfy both the received criteria and the received mutation rule, but that is are not referenced in the chemical documents.

2011-03-17

20110066633

SHUFFLING PLAYBACK CONTENT BASED ON MULTIPLE CRITERIA - Each of one or more songs in a song list is analyzed to determine whether the song satisfies a set of criteria at its current location. For each of the one or more songs that satisfies the set of criteria, the song is kept at its current location in the song list. For each of the one or more songs that does not satisfy the set of criteria, an attempt is made to select (e.g., randomly) another song in an unprocessed portion of the song list that satisfies the set of criteria. If a selected song satisfies the set of criteria then the song and the selected song are swapped. However, if greater than a threshold number of attempts to select a song that satisfies the set of criteria are made, then the song is kept at its current location in the song list

2011-03-17

20110066634

SENDING A COMMUNICATIONS HEADER WITH VOICE RECORDING TO SEND METADATA FOR USE IN SPEECH RECOGNITION, FORMATTING, AND SEARCH IN MOBILE SEARCH APPLICATION - In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for sending a communications header with the voice recording to send metadata for use in speech recognition, formatting, and search in searching for web content on a mobile communication facility comprising capturing speech presented by a user using a resident capture facility on the mobile communication facility; transmitting a communications header to a speech recognition facility from the mobile communication facility through a wireless communications facility, wherein the communications header includes at least one of device name, network type, audio source, display parameters for the wireless communications facility, geographic location, and phone number information; transmitting at least a portion of the captured speech as data through the wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility; generating speech-to-text results utilizing the speech recognition facility based at least in part on the information relating to the captured speech and the communications header; and transmitting text from the speech-to-text results along with URL usage information configured to enable a user to conduct a search on the mobile communication facility.

2011-03-17

20110066635

MEDICAL IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY APPARATUS, MEDICAL IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH MEDICAL IMAGE INFORMATION DISPLAY PROGRAM IS RECORDED - Image observation reports and medical images are displayed correlated to each other. A second keyword group is obtained, by detecting phrases that match keywords of a first keyword group that represent organs or pathologies from within image observation reports. The organs or pathologies represented by the first keyword group are automatically detected from within medical images, and a third keyword group that includes keywords corresponding to the detected organs or pathologies is obtained. Common keywords that match among keywords within the second and third keyword groups are obtained. Link data that correlates the organs or pathologies corresponding to the common keywords are generated for each common keyword. The common keywords and indicia that represent the organs or pathologies corresponding to the common keywords are displayed correlated to each other.

2011-03-17

20110066636

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SHARING USER GENERATED SLIDE OBJECTS OVER A NETWORK - In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to an address match in connection with a request for a target structured document, identifying one or more slide objects associated with the target structured document, the one or more slide objects defining a set of anchor point definitions in the target structured document; identifying one or more anchor points corresponding to the one or more slide objects in a document object model (DOM) representation of the target structured document based on the set of anchor point definitions; accessing content corresponding to the one or more slide objects; and rendering the target structured document and the content of the one or more slide objects proximal to the identified anchor points.

2011-03-17

20110066637

FAST SIGNATURE SCAN - Systems and methods for scanning signatures in a string field. In one implementation, the invention provides a method for signature scanning. The method includes processing one or more signatures into one or more formats that include one or more fingerprints and one or more follow-on search data structures for each fixed-size signature or signature substring such that the number of fingerprints for each fixed-size signature or signature substring is equal to a step size for a signature scanning operation and the particular fixed-size signature or signature substring is identifiable at any location within any string fields to be scanned, receiving a particular string field, identifying any signatures included in the particular string field including scanning for the fingerprints for each scan step size and searching for the follow-on search data structures at the locations where one or more fingerprints are found, and outputting any identified signatures.

2011-03-17

20110066638

Bit strings search apparatus, search method, and program - Using a tree configuration wherein node groups of four or more nodes composed of combinations of branch nodes, leaf nodes or empty nodes are linked into a tree form, a bit string search by a search key string is enabled by repeatedly linking to one of the nodes of a node group to which a primary node belongs in response to the bit values of keys of the search key string at the discrimination bit position included in the branch node.

2011-03-17

20110066639

LOCAL SEARCH METHOD FOR HANDSET - The invention provides a local search method for a handset, comprising the following steps: step a, loading a handset to a local browser and a local database, and prompting the user to input a retrieval word; step b, displaying a search result and listing a function list based on the retrieval word input by the user. The local search method for a handset provided by the present invention obtains all the function titles related to the keywords by searching the local database using the local browser and displays them in a display list of the browser. The user may choose to perform a corresponding function directly, so it greatly facilitates the user.

2011-03-17

20110066640

METHOD FOR PROCESSING COMBINED TEXT INFORMATION - Provided is a combined text information processing method including: at a combined text information processing system, registering a member by receiving member information containing a member ID and a phone number for message transmission on the member ID; at a user, sending combined text information to the combined text information processing system through a network; at a receiver section of the combined text information processing system, receiving the combined text information; performing analysis to extract, when the first text information is searched from an information search database, search information corresponding to the second text information from the search information database and extract, when the first text information is searched from a member ID database, the phone number corresponding to the member ID from the ID information database; and at a transmission section of the combined text information processing system, transmitting the search information to the user or the message to a person corresponding to the member ID according to information extracted through the analysis.

2011-03-17

20110066641

HANDLING ENUM QUERIES IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method and apparatus for handling an Enum query in a communication network. An Enum server receives an Enum query sent from an Enum client. The Enum server determines that the query requires the Enum server to contact a remote node, such as a Number Portability database, in order to respond to the query. In addition to sending a remote node query to the remote node, the Enum server estimates a response time for replying to the Enum client. The estimated response time is estimated based on latency statistics relating to the remote node and stored at the Enum server. The Enum server sends a message containing the estimated response time to the Enum client. By sending an estimated response time to the Enum client, it allows the Enum client to delay retransmitting the Enum query to the Enum server in the event that the Enum client has not received a response before the Enum query retransmission timer times out.

2011-03-17

20110066642

METHOD FOR TAGGING MEDIA CONTENT, PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A method for tagging media content captured by a portable electronic device is disclosed. The method comprises determining a time for capturing of a piece of media content; connecting, via the Internet, to at least one bulletin service; acquiring from the at least one bulletin service, a data string indicating information associated with the determined time; and including the data string into metadata associated with the piece of media content. A portable electronic device and a computer program are also disclosed.

2011-03-17

20110066643

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING, VERIFYING, AND DISTIBUTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION - A method and system may allow inputting data into a database of financial information from multinational sources (e.g., in the form of documents), and searching over that data. One agent may add or upload a document relating to a corporation, metadata for the document may be generated, and another agent may validate the metadata or the document. Based on the document type, the document may be divided into portions and tagged. An automatic process (e.g., a “crawler”) may collect documents on corporations. A user may search over the documents, where the original documents are in a language different from the user's search language.

2011-03-17

20110066644

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING, VERIFYING, AND DISTIBUTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION - A method and system may allow inputting data into a database of financial information from multinational sources (e.g., in the form of documents), and searching over that data. One agent may add or upload a document relating to a corporation, metadata for the document may be generated, and another agent may validate the metadata or the document. Based on the document type, the document may be divided into portions and tagged. An automatic process (e.g., a “crawler”) may collect documents on corporations. A user may search over the documents, where the original documents are in a language different from the user's search language.

2011-03-17

20110066645

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING, VERIFYING, AND DISTIBUTING FINANCIAL INFORMATION - A method and system may allow inputting data into a database of financial information from multinational sources (e.g., in the form of documents), and searching over that data. One agent may add or upload a document relating to a corporation, metadata for the document may be generated, and another agent may validate the metadata or the document. Based on the document type, the document may be divided into portions and tagged. An automatic process (e.g., a “crawler”) may collect documents on corporations. A user may search over the documents, where the original documents are in a language different from the user's search language.

2011-03-17

20110066646

RANGE-CENTRIC CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A computer implemented method for providing location-based services using a mobile device is provided. A first anchor is generated by sensing a location-identifying physical characteristic proximate to a mobile device present at a first location and generating a representation of the location-identifying physical characteristic; determining a descriptive identification of the first location; and combining the descriptive identification and the representation of the location-identifying physical characteristic. The first anchor is transmitted to a computer remote from the first location. A request is made to a remote computer for a chronotope retrieved from a database of previously generated anchors, the received chronotope indicating a logical distance between the first anchor and a second anchor, wherein the second anchor is associated with a second location distinct from the first location. Information including the logical distance between the first and second anchors indicated by the received chronotope is conveyed to a user of the mobile device.

2011-03-17

20110066647

Consolidating Related Task Data in Process Management Solutions - A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing task data. A task advisor identifies a set of queries and a set of data sources mapped to a task type in a mapping entry. The task type is associated with a selected task. The mapping entry maps the task type to the set of queries. The set of queries is mapped to the set of data sources. The task advisor sends each query in the set of queries to a corresponding data source in the set of data sources. The task advisor aggregates the data received from the set of data sources in response to the set of queries. A user may utilize the aggregated data to complete the selected task.

2011-03-17

20110066648

SIMULTANEOUS RESERVATION OF BRAND IDENTITY - Simultaneous reservation of brand identity is disclosed. In one embodiment a method to simultaneous reserve online brand identity includes initiating a simultaneous search responsive to a single criteria, creating a uniform search result of available internet property such as trademark names, domain names, and/or social media names, searching availability of the internet property related to single search criteria, retaining ownership of matching internet property, registering the internet property, presenting opportunity to users to challenge ownership of the internet property. In another embodiment, a method may include abandoned trademarks responsive to a single search criteria are automatically registered and semantic analysis is performed on search results from the single search criteria.

2011-03-17

20110066649

DOUBLE MAP REDUCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FRAMEWORK - A method, apparatus, system, article of manufacture, and data structure provide the ability to perform a sorted map-reduce job on a cluster. A cluster of two or more computers is defined by installing a map-reduce framework onto each computer and formatting the cluster by identifying the cluster computers, establishing communication between them, and enabling the cluster to function as a unit. Data is placed into the cluster where it is distributed so that each computer contains a portion of the data. A first map function is performed where each computer sorts their respective data and creates an abstraction that is a representation of the data. The abstractions are exchanged and merged to create complete abstraction. A second map function searches the complete abstraction to redistribute and exchange the data across the computers in the cluster. A reduce function is performed in parallel to produce a result.

2011-03-17

20110066650

QUERY CLASSIFICATION USING IMPLICIT LABELS - Described is a technology for automatically generating labeled training data for training a classifier based upon implicit information associated with the data. For example, whether a query has commercial intent can be classified based upon whether the query was submitted at a commercial website's search portal, as logged in a toolbar log. Positive candidate query-related data is extracted from the toolbar log based upon the associated implicit information. A click log is processed to obtain negative query-related data. The labeled training data is automatically generated by separating at least some of the positive candidate query data from the remaining positive candidate query data based upon the negative query data. The labeled training data may be used to train a classifier, such as to classify an online search query as having a certain type of intent or not.

2011-03-17

20110066651

PORTABLE EXECUTABLE FILE ANALYSIS - A portable executable file is analyzed by parsing a binary image of the portable executable file to generate a parsed field. An attribute of the parsed field is determined. The attribute of the parsed field is compared to a valid characteristic of a valid corresponding field based upon, at least in part, a portable executable file format specification. It is determined if the attribute of the parsed field matches the valid characteristic of the valid corresponding field.

2011-03-17

20110066652

CONDITIONAL ACCESS TO USER-GENERATED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method and system for distributing multimedia content may enable a user to specify a number of recipients for receiving user-generated content (UGC) provided by a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN). The UGC may be stored in a UGC library. The recipients may be specified by selecting entries in an electronic address book accessible via the MCDN. The specified recipients may retrieve the UGC, or the UGC may be sent to the recipients. Access to the UGC may be provided by at least one of: a web access point, an Internet-protocol access point, and a mobile access point.

2011-03-17

20110066653

MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR - A management apparatus to manage log information related to a process in a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus operating in cooperation with each other. The management apparatus includes a reception unit to receive first log information associated with a first user managed by the first information processing apparatus and to receive second log information associated with a second user managed by the second information processing apparatus from the first and second information processing apparatuses, respectively, which independently perform user management. The management apparatus also includes a log management unit to manage third log information. If the first user corresponds to the second user, then the third log information is generated by merging the first log information associated with the first user and the second log information.

2011-03-17

20110066654

OPERATIONALLY COMPLETE HIERARCHICAL REPOSITORY IN A RELATIONAL DATABASE - A modular repository is described, where operational features may be implemented without the need to scan every resource included in the modular repository. A modular repository includes a dedicated set of database objects containing all information needed to access the resources in the repository. For example, the database objects of a modular repository may include those user identifier mappings and ACL mappings, etc., to which metadata in the modular repository refers. A database system may also include a mechanism through which a modular repository may be mounted under a subdirectory of a common directory in the database system. The resources of a modular repository that are mounted under the common directory may be accessed through the common directory. Further, a client may query the resources of any modular repository mounted under the common directory by making the federated repository, represented by the common directory, the context of the query.

2011-03-17

20110066655

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MUTATING POLYMORPHIC OBJECT COMPONENTS - Embodiments of the present invention provide for techniques for enabling mutation of an instantiated object between multiple underlying object types at run time. The object may alter its behavior from one object type to another at anytime without requiring a new object to be instantiated. The object's behavior may be implemented by other objects which are retrieved at run time, thus disconnecting the direct link between the object's behavior and the object.

2011-03-17

20110066656

METHOD FOR THE TRACEABILITY OF DATA IN A COLLABORATIVE SERVICE-ORIENTED FRAMEWORK - A method for data management in a collaborative service-oriented workshop for processing objects associated with data representing actual data or processes. After selecting at least one first object including at least one first link, to a second object separate from the first object, at least one second link to a third object is accessed, the second link being included in one of the first and second objects, the third object being separate from the first and second objects. A link is then established between the data associated with the third object and the other of the first and third objects.

2011-03-17

20110066657

Navigation System and Methods Regarding Disputed Territories - Systems, devices, features, and methods for collecting or storing data corresponding to disputed territories for a geographic database, such as for use with a navigation system, are disclosed. For example, one method comprises identifying a data record that represents a geographic feature of a disputed area. An indication of dispute may be assigned to the identified data record, in which the indication of dispute represents that the identified data record corresponds to a feature in dispute between multiple geographic entities. Another data record that represents a geographic feature in dispute may also be identified. The indication of dispute and/or the data records of the features may be stored in a geographic database.

2011-03-17

20110066658

Methods and Devices Employing Content Identifiers - Content identifiers are associated with respective metadata. Through use of the metadata, a user's experience with the content can be enhanced. A variety of other arrangements are also detailed.

2011-03-17

20110066659

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING STRUCTURED DATA - A computer system implemented method of creating and using structured data from a textual input, comprising: providing a table for structured data, receiving at least one textual input, dividing at least a portion of the textual input into paragraphs, for each of the paragraphs, creating a profile by extracting predicative phrases from the paragraph, for each of the predicative phrases, extracting a noun from the predicative phrase, for each extracted noun, receiving a textual definition from the dictionary corresponding to the noun, dividing the textual definition for each noun into definition paragraphs, and creating a profile for each definition paragraph by extracting predicative phrases of the definition paragraph, comparing the profile of the definition paragraphs to the profile of the paragraph containing the noun based upon an algorithm for compatibility; and adding the predicative phrase containing the noun into the table for structured data if the algorithm is satisfied.

2011-03-17

20110066660

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING MOCKUP BUSINESS OBJECTS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for a mockup business object. The mockup business object implemented within a computer framework including other business objects. In one exemplary embodiment, the method may include generating, within the computer framework, the mockup business object based on a metadata stored within the computer framework, when the mockup business object does not exist within the computer framework. The method may also include determining whether a structure of the mockup business object has changed based on the metadata, when the mockup business object does exist within the computer framework. Moreover, the method may include modifying the mockup business object based on the result of the determining step.

2011-03-17

20110066661

Apparatus and Methods for Displaying and Determining Dependency Relationships among Subsystems in a Computer Software System - A method is provided for managing, in a computer system, design of a database system having a set of schemata. The method includes, in a first computer process, extracting dependencies from the database system and identifying the set of schemata. The method further includes, for each specific schema in the set of schemata, creating in a second computer process a partition that, in turn, contains a further partition for each element of the specific schema, so as to establish a hierarchy of partitions in accordance with the structure of the set of schemata. The method also includes storing a representation of the database system including subsystems, dependency relationships among the subsystems, and the hierarchy of partitions. Finally, the method includes providing a graphical output from the computer system, based on the stored representation, in which appears a display of the subsystems in a hierarchy of partitions within a dependency structure matrix, such matrix graphically indicating the dependency relationships among subsystems. Related apparatus and computer products are also provided.

2011-03-17

20110066662

System and Method for Content Extraction from Unstructured Sources - A system and method for extracting content from unstructured sources is disclosed. The method includes analyzing web pages of a website, storing text and image data for each web page of the website, extracting a plurality of entities from the web page data, scoring each entity of the plurality of entities to provide an overall score for each entity, and defining a product based on the plurality of entities and the overall score for each entity.

2011-03-17

20110066663

Multifunction Multimedia Device - A method for interpreting messages, user-defined alert conditions, voice commands and performing an action in response is described. A method for annotating media content is described. A method for presenting additional content associated with media content identified based on a fingerprint is described. A method for identifying that an advertisement portion of media content is being played based on a fingerprint derived from the media content is described. A method of one media device recording particular media content automatically in response to another media device recording the particular media content is described. A method of concurrently playing media content on multiple devices is described. A method of publishing information associated with recording of media content is described. A method of deriving fingerprints by media devices that meet an idleness criteria is described. A method of loading, modifying, and displaying a high definition frame from a frame buffer is described. A method of recording or playing media content identified based on fingerprints is described.

2011-03-17

20110066664

SPORTS COLLABORATION AND COMMUNICATION PLATFORM - A sports management system is described herein that provides a platform and social network for those associated with youth and other sports to simplify common tasks, unify related participants, and enhance the activities surrounding playing sports. The system brings together players, parents, and coaches into an integrated experience centered on the information each is interested in. The system is not tied to any one sport, but rather can unify information from multiple sports, so families that have multiple children playing, for example, soccer, football, basketball, and baseball can follow information about their players and teams throughout the year. Thus, the sports management system provides a one-stop location for all parties related to youth and other sports to gather and share information.

2011-03-17

20110066665

On-Line Invention Disclosure System And Docket System - An on-line invention disclosure system includes a user computer, a server and a database coupled to the server. The server provides user screens to the user to prompt the users to provide disclosure information to the server. The server receives the disclosure information from the users and stores the information in the database while allowing access to the database after storing the information on the database. The server prompts the first inventor to provide an approval and upon approval assigns a docket number from a docket number database.

2011-03-17

20110066666

FILE MANAGEMENT METHOD AND STORAGE SYSTEM - Files stored in a storage system are grouped in a metadata server, and storage servers discretely storing these files are instructed to detect file duplication and to remove duplicate data. The storage servers detect duplicate data by comparing file fragments stored by the storage servers themselves with each other. In a case where duplicate data is detected, the storage servers delete the duplicate data.

2011-03-17

20110066667

FILE CREATION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A file creation method comprising:creating file content at a particular location and time using a portable device; and obtaining data from wireless communication devices detectable by the portable device at the particular location and time thereby to obtain a set of data. The set of data identifies or enables identification of the wireless communication devices. The method further comprises associating the set of data and time with the file content to enable subsequent analysis to determine the particular location using a time-dependent database.

2011-03-17

20110066668

Method and System for Providing On-Demand Services Through a Virtual File System at a Computing Device - A method of providing on-demand service through a virtual file system is implemented at a computing device. In response to receiving a request for a file associated with an instance of the virtual file system, the computing device checks the metadata of the requested file in the virtual file system to identify a first set of data blocks of the requested file that is not present at the computing device and retrieves the first set of data blocks from at least one of a plurality of storage devices associated with the virtual file system. The computing device generates a copy of the requested file using the retrieved first set of data blocks and returns the generated copy of the requested file to the requesting application or user.

2011-03-17

20110066669

PHYSICAL RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION DEVICE - A physical random number generation device includes a physical random number generation source which generates a white noise, an AD conversion module which inputs the white noise for conversion to a physical prime random number as digital data, a physical prime random number sequence generation module which inputs two or more physical prime random numbers to generate a physical prime random number sequence, a white noise array generation module for inputting the physical prime random number sequence and for generating a white noise array, a white noise composition module for generating multiple physical random numbers from the input white noise array, and an interface for externally outputting the generated physical random numbers as physical random number data. With this arrangement, multiple physical random numbers are generated at high speeds from the physical prime random number(s) taken out of the physical random number generation source as digital data.

2011-03-17

20110066670

COMBINATION OF VALUES FROM A PSEUDO-RANDOM SOURCE - Values generated by at least one pseudo-random source (PRS) are recombined to form one or more recombined values. The method involves using analog, digital, or hybrid manipulation techniques to transform characteristics of PRS, including but not limited to statistical characteristics, and input/output characteristics. In some examples, the recombination method provides a way to de-bias output bits from PRS without appreciable increase in self noise. In some examples, the recombined result passes NIST's Statistical Tests for Randomness even if underlying PRS natively does not. In some examples, the recombination method provides a way to make a PRS challengeable, even if the underlying PRS is not natively challengeable. In some examples, recombination is used to allow single PRS to have multiple outputs, and in some cases multi-dimensional (orthogonal) outputs. In some examples, a multi-modal system is created via recombination using multiple PRS. In some examples, post recombined result exhibit super error characteristics (prior to application of any error correction codes) compared to native PRS output. In some examples, the recombined values are applied to security applications, for instance authentication and/or cryptographic functions, which may provide improved characteristics (e.g., cryptographic strength) in view of a de-biased output which in some examples also passes NIST's Statistical Tests.

2011-03-17

20110066671

PROJECTOR, PROJECTOR SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD - A projector connected to a terminal device via a network includes: a confirming unit to confirm whether an IP address has been changed; a creating unit to create an executable file for executing image transfer software using a changed IP address, if the IP address is confirmed to have been changed; a delivering unit to deliver the executable file in response to a request from the terminal device; a receiving unit to receive, from the terminal device in which the image transfer software has been run by the executable file, a connection based on the changed IP address and receive a transfer of image information on an image being displayed in the terminal device; and a projecting unit to project the image being displayed in the terminal device using the image information.

2011-03-17

20110066672

Transaction Sticky Load Balance Policies - A transaction sticky load balance policy allows a remote client to choose a target server node from a server cluster to provide a transaction service. The load balance policy directs invocations of business methods within a transaction to the same target server node. The remote client receives the load balance policy from a proxy, which is downloaded to the remote client from one of the server nodes in the server cluster. The remote client selects a target server node according to the load balance policy. The remote client then invokes the business methods within a transaction on the target server node via the proxy. The target server node can execute all of the business methods within the transaction on a Java virtual machine. The business methods can be implemented with Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs).

2011-03-17

20110066673

DYNAMIC STREAM SWITCH CONTROL - In general, in one aspect, streaming content is received from a server. A condition indicative of a cycle of switching versions of the streaming content during playback of the streaming content is determined at a client-side application, the versions having different resolutions requiring different network and processing resources. In response to the determined condition, up-switching to a stream version having a bit rate that meets or exceeds a locked out bit rate is prevented. The prevented up-switching is allowed after expiration of a predetermined condition.

2011-03-17

20110066674

CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON COMMUNAL PREFERENCES - A method and system for recommending multimedia content includes collecting consumption information for a plurality of consumers. The consumption information may be used to generate collections of recommended multimedia content, including obtainable multimedia assets. The collections may be offered to a consumer for purchase. The consumer may be provided access to the multimedia assets. A unified storefront application, providing access to multimedia content via an Internet-protocol television portal, a web portal, and a mobile portal, may be used to offer and provide access to the multimedia assets.

2011-03-17

20110066675

Method and program product for GIS enabled land management system - A improved tract-based lease data management systems is described that allow for rendering maps of database entities with reduced data entry. The invention includes methods for linking, unlinking, detecting invalidating changes, and rebuilding database entity geographical representations.

2011-03-17

20110066676

Method and system for reducing web page download time - In one embodiment web page response time is improved by requesting multiple resources in a batch request, receiving said resources in a batch response, and disjoining the resources and corresponding HTTP headers before caching on the client. The resources are retrieved by web browser from the cache separately without loss of cache granularity. Client parses base page to determine the embedded resources and includes in the batch requests only web addresses those resources that are uncached or may be expired. To reduce required bandwidth, server validates caching information of every resource before sending the batch response. In another embodiment web application performance for mobile users is improved by combining individually requested resources into the batch response on a network node positioned on a link between cellular network and the Internet.

2011-03-17

20110066677

Network System - A network system including a management device with both a status managing unit for collecting status information on a terminal status and a terminal instructing unit for transmitting a shift start message to the terminal to make transfer data to the server on the basis of the status information collected by the status managing unit. The terminal includes a determining unit for determining data transfer in response to the shift start message, a data transferring unit for transferring the data to the server when the determining unit determines the data transfer, a storage device control unit for erasing the data from a storage device after completion of data transfer, and a thin client shifting unit for causing the terminal to function as a thin client after erasure of data.

2011-03-17

20110066678

WEBPAGE BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, WEBPAGE BROWSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR THE SAME - The present invention can generate an image for webpage browsing that allows a webpage to be displayed in an optimum size at a portable terminal, and can also suppress communication costs as much as possible. A server acquires data of a webpage for which acquisition is requested from a portable terminal, renders the acquired webpage, and acquires a font size of characters in the webpage (step S

2011-03-17

20110066679

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISTRIBUTING CONTENT - A system and method for controlling a communication system includes a local area network, a first client device and a first server device in communication with the first client device through the local area network. The first server device communicates an audio-visual stream and remote user interface data to the first client device through the local area network. The first client device renders a display using the audio-video stream and the remote user interface. The first client device generates a key command and communicates the key command to the first server device in response to the remote user interface data.

2011-03-17

20110066680

INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND EXECUTION CONTROL METHOD - Provided an information processing apparatus including a communication unit, an acquisition unit that acquires an application from an external storage apparatus each time processing concerning execution is started, a determination unit that determines whether the external storage apparatus acting as an acquisition source is registered, a first determination unit that determines whether to execute the application based on a user's operation if it is determined that the external storage apparatus is not registered, a communication processing unit that performs communication with an authentication server if the first determination unit determines to execute the application, a second determination unit that determines whether to execute the application based on an authentication result transmitted from the authentication server, and an execution processing unit that selectively executes the acquired application if the determination unit determines that the external storage apparatus is registered or the second determination unit determines to execute the application.

2011-03-17

20110066681

CLIENT DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, PROGRAM, SERVER DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - It is possible to automatically execute an offline Web application without requiring installation of software. A mobile terminal includes: a client program, a server program execution environment and a local proxy server. An application server has a server program. The local proxy server of the mobile terminal acquires a server program from the application server in accordance with an HTTP request from the client program and installs the program in the server program execution environment. When the installation is complete, synchronization with the server program of the application server side is executed. The local proxy server divides the HTTP request from the client program to a server program on the mobile terminal and a server program on the application server.